Bermúdez de Castro José María, Martinón-Torres María, Arsuaga Juan Luis, Carbonell Eudald
Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Paseo de la Sierra de Atapuerca 3, 09002, Burgos, Spain.
Department of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW, UK.
Evol Anthropol. 2017 Jul;26(4):157-171. doi: 10.1002/evan.21540.
It has been twenty years since diagnosis and publication of the species Homo antecessor. Since then, new human fossils recovered from the TD6 level of the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain) have helped to refine its taxonomic and phylogenetic position. In this paper, we present a synthesis of the most characteristic features of this species, as well as our interpretation derived from the latest investigations. We focus on the phylogenetic interpretation of Homo antecessor, taking into account the most recent paleogenetic analyses and a reassessment of the European Middle Pleistocene hominin record. We try to show that, twenty years after its publication, H. antecessor provides a good opportunity to address the morphology of the last common ancestor of Neandertals and modern humans.
自前人属物种被诊断并公布以来已有二十年了。从那时起，从西班牙北部阿塔普埃尔卡山脉格兰多利纳遗址TD6层发现的新人类化石，有助于完善其分类学和系统发育位置。在本文中，我们对该物种最具特征的特性进行了综述，并给出了源自最新研究的解读。我们着重于前人属的系统发育解读，同时考虑到最新的古遗传学分析以及对欧洲中更新世人类化石记录的重新评估。我们试图表明，在其公布二十年后，前人属为探讨尼安德特人和现代人类的最后共同祖先的形态提供了一个很好的契机。
